Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – March 14

Two men receive treatment for severe burning after they challenged one another to douse themselves with petrol during a drinking party. Photo: Nguyen Viet / Tuoi Tre

Here’s what you need to know to start your day!

Society

-- Five men in the south-central city of Nha Trang were hospitalized Wednesday with severe burns as they had during a beer drinking party challenged each other to douse petrol on their body while sitting around a fire for grilling fish in a deserted piece of land.

-- Authorities in Quang Binh Province, north-central Vietnam, have launched a probe into illegal forest logging that went unnoticed in the last two months of last year.

-- A man fatally shot his father-in-law with a home-made gun for mistaking him as an animal hiding amidst forest bushes as he went hunting in the mountainous northern province of Lao Cai on Tuesday.

-- One man and two women from a village died after a cave collapsed while they were attempting to collect tin ore left after mining in the north-central province of Nghe An, a local official said Wednesday.

-- Two were killed and three others were injured as a trained ploughed into their car while it was crossing railway tracks in a wrong point in the northern province of Hai Duong on Wednesday.

Business

-- Many firms in southern Vietnam are in dire need of laborers at their seafood factories as a number of workers have quit their jobs, citing hard working conditions and low salary.

-- A North Korean group will be one of the contingents from 25 countries and territories to join the Vietnam International Travel Mart scheduled for March 27 to 30 in Hanoi.

-- Eleven out of 13 projects invested in foreign countries by state-run PetroVietnam Exploration Production Corporation (PVEP) suffered massive losses or ran the risk of making massive losses, according to a report by the industry and trade ministry.

-- Nguyen Vu Truong Son, CEO of state-owned Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), which manages PVEP, has been allowed to resign, with reasons for his resignation undisclosed.

Many sewers along the streets in Ho Chi Minh City have their entrances blocked by garbage on a regular basis, negatively impacting urban esthetics and the environment while helping cause serious flooding.

Despite the sweltering weather in Hanoi these days, many young people still flock to lotus ponds surrounding the capital city’s iconic Ho Tay (West Lake) to pose for Instgram-ready photos with a sea of blooming flowers.